Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Has The U.S. Air Force Recruited Cadets To Spy On Other Cadets Suspected Of Drug Use, Sexual Assault And Other Misconduct

The U.S. Air Force reportedly had cadets snitch on one another in an effort to root out rule-breaking. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Mike Kaplan/Released)

Stealth Bombers: Air Force Allegedly Using Snitches To Catch Rule-Breaking Cadets -- FOX News

The United States Air Force reportedly has created a “secret system” of informants at its academy in Colorado Springs to snitch on fellow cadets who break the rules, in an attempt to curb drug abuse and combat sexual assault.

While those who join the Air Force pledge never to lie, cheat or steal, or "tolerate among us anyone who does,” the service allegedly urged informants to deceive classmates, professors and commanders while gathering information to file secret reports aimed at exposing wrongdoing at the Air Force Academy, the Colorado Springs Gazette reports. One self-professed informant, Eric Thomas, 24, told the newspaper he was ordered by the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations to set up drug purchases, follow suspected rapists and to ultimately feed that information back to Air Force brass.

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More News On The U.S. Air Force Recruiting Cadets To Spy On Other Cadets

Honor and deception -- The Gazette
Secret Air Force Academy program recruited cadets to spy on classmates -- Daily Caller
Honor, deception in secret air academy spy system -- Air Force Times
Recruited to spy, cut loose by Air Force Academy -- Denver Post editorial

1 comment:

oldfatslow said...

Douglas MacArthur faced
this at West Point. Supposedly,
he lived up to a motto of
"Never to lie and never to
tattle" and didn't rat out
anyone.

ofs